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		MINI-LESSON: Nonfiction Text Features Students will identify and use nonfiction text features in a news story. Additional resources available at www.timeforkids.com

• We've Got News for You!
  Offers five lessons --and links to many more lessons in our archive -- to help teachers integrate the newspaper into their curriculum.
  http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson258.shtml
• Extra! Extra! (Information)
  In this lesson, students will act as New York Times editors who consider and create news items that add depth and breadth to a main news story.
  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20060811friday.html
• Creating a Classroom Newspaper
  In this lesson, various aspects of newspapers are covered, including parts of a newspaper, writing an article, online newspapers, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
  http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=249
• Newspaper Reporting and Writing
  Students identify the many characteristics of a newspaper and culminates with the creating of a published document.
  http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/class2.html
• How To Use the Newspaper in the Classroom: 38 Teaching Tips (pdf)
  These tips will help educators get the most out of newspaper use and make it easy to incorporate newspapers into your program.
  http://www.usaweekend.com/partners/nie/pdfs/38tips.pdf
• AskEric Lesson Plans: Journalism
  This page features a nice collection of journalism lessons -- by grade level.
  http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts/Journalism

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